Thursday, December 9, 2010

Parts arrive!

Happiness is a Sparkfun box in the mail.

I've now got the ATMega328 chip, some power supply components, a fistful of switches and LEDs, a nicely pre-built USB<->Serial board, and several other toys.  A trip to Fry's scored me a breadboard, an assortment of resistors and capacitors, and a couple of basic shift registers.  Time to get to work!

First things first:  let's learn a bit of arduino code.  After wiring the thing up (thanks to some great howtos) and doing a few of the requisite Blink-An-LED tutorials, I've got a working microprocessor!

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